00:00...named Elon, and he's one of the greatest business leaders and innovators the world has ever produced.
00:07He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation, and we appreciate it.
00:14And I just want to say that Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations.
00:23And you know the kinds of things that he's found and his people have found.
00:27He's brought a group of very smart people in, and they found things that are pretty unbelievable.
00:34I have to say that the numbers that we're talking about are substantial, but they're going to be very much more substantial with time,
00:41because many of the things that we're working on right now, we're going to have to remember Elon as we find them.
00:47But the numbers could double and triple, because many, many things, we don't want to go out with them until we're sure.
00:54But we've found things that are unbelievably stupid and unbelievably bad.
01:00With the Department of Government Efficiency, Elon's delivered a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington.
01:07Doge has installed geniuses with an engineering mindset and unbelievably talented people and computers.
01:14I actually asked Elon one time, what's their primary thing, and they have a lot of primary things, all having to do with being smart.
01:21But he said the thing that they're really the best at is working with computers, so that they can't be outsmarted by somebody that's not so honest,
01:30that happens to also be good with computers, but not as good as these people.
01:34But the mindset and the senior ranks of every federal department, it's really changed.
01:40And with Elon's guidance, they're helping to detect fraud slash waste and modernize broken and outdated systems.
01:47So, as you know, we're talking about various systems and changing systems.
01:51And, you know, sadly, it takes a long time to do that.
01:54But you'll change, let's say, a system at IRS and computerize it properly, where the job can be done in one-tenth a time.
02:02But it takes sometimes years to rebuild those systems.
02:07But we've started.
02:08In many cases, we've started.
02:09I will say that this has less to do with Elon.
02:12But the air traffic control systems, we're bidding out to the best companies in the world, those systems right now.
02:19The previous administration was horrible, what they did.
02:24They spent billions and billions of dollars.
02:27And in the end, it didn't even come close to working.
02:30They tried to hook up wire to copper, and it can't be done.
02:34And they just spent billions of dollars and just wasted money.
02:38Actually made the system much worse.
02:40So we're going to get a brand new modern system.
02:42Congress is working with us on that.
02:44And we're going to get it done as quickly as we can.
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